Satish Balay wrote: > python-2.4 is the biggest crock - which you already pulled in. > > My guess is - the rest of rawhide fixes up things that broke with the > python upgrade. I have a machine which is completely updated to > rawhide - and yum works fine on it. > # rpm -q yum > yum-2.1.12-1 Thanks very much. Upgrading to yum-2.1.12-1 seems to solve (or avoid) the problem. (I didn't need to get any other rawhide stuff, fortunately.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland